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by rappatic 3y ago
Digital age IDs should be equipped with a way to perform a zero-knowledge proof that the bearer is indeed 18 without betraying their identity. Perhaps a full-fledged blockchain is a bit much but a decentralized way to perform basic verifica
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by rappatic 3y ago
The article talks about range concerns as if they're simply incorrect or ill-founded: > Niedermeyer said that while an electric car can meet most people's driving needs, it struggles with edge cases like road trips because of t
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Gov.uk has a max sentence length of 25 words(insidegovuk.blog.gov.uk)
18 points by rappatic 3y ago|11 comments
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by rappatic 3y ago
Did you check your credit card statement to confirm that you were actually being charged the incorrect price (incl. the service charges and delivery fees)? Is it possible that the client calculates the price shown in the UI itself while the
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by rappatic 3y ago
GPS navigation and route tracking, perhaps the most important features of a hiking app,
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by rappatic 3y ago
"What a strange tale": Tech conference canceled after execs flee report of fake women speakers [1] [1] https://fortune.com/2023/11/27/devternity-tech-conference-fa...
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by rappatic 3y ago
This isn't justification for an app being bad. A company shouldn't release a broken and slow app on an OS I pay for and you can't make it seem like that's okay simply because Microsoft took ten minutes to put the code
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Fascism: One Hundred Questions Asked and Answered (1936) [pdf](google.com)
2 points by rappatic 3y ago|0 comments
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by rappatic 3y ago
I loved the high precision calculator and used it occasionally. Sad to see it going.
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by rappatic 3y ago
Also in Firefox on macOS
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by rappatic 3y ago
What about other permissions where you can't realistically send an empty object? For example, if the user grants permission to view location, the location object passed to the app will obviously have the pertinent information. Would th
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Why Germany is a blank spot on Google’s Street View(bigthink.com)
2 points by rappatic 4y ago|0 comments
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by rappatic 4y ago
> Musk's misguided approach to free speech, which says anything that is not explicitly illegal is allowed That's what free speech is , whether or not you agree that such a policy of unrestricted free speech is constructive or
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by rappatic 4y ago
Incidentally, I'm guessing this will cause a rise in Trump's popularity again. There's a decent chance he gets unbanned by Musk (who is strongly in favor of unregulated speech on social media), and Twitter was how Trump garne
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by rappatic 5y ago
For what it's worth, I've also seen someone interpret this joke as related to prostitutes and windows (as Sumerian bars were apparently also brothels). I think this just goes to show how much one needs to understand about a societ
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by rappatic 5y ago
It's nice to see a big company like Amazon using Wasm in something that actually sees the light of production (and in something that's used by so many people). I always see tech giants supporting or contributing to newer technolog
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by rappatic 5y ago
He posted an earlier video on his TikTok account showcasing the device's coding capabilities. I don't know if the videos he posts are entirely reliable (eg. as another commenter mentioned, he claimed a 500 wpm typing speed by typi
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by rappatic 5y ago
The author makes some points about the benefits of doing this, but I really think he's making things more difficult for himself. Even a basic note-taking app would provide a much larger number of features and be equally easy to use. It
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French Republican Calendar(en.wikipedia.org)
9 points by rappatic 5y ago|0 comments
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by rappatic 5y ago
This is a funny parallel to the U.S. oil reserve news recently. The Canadian maple syrup market is a fascinating one. I've read before that maple syrup farmers in Québec legally must sell their maple syrup through a central organizatio
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by rappatic 5y ago
That site is a perfect example of this. It actually required me to sign up for the newsletter to even read the article.
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by rappatic 5y ago
I noticed that as soon as I saw the poster and immediately checked the comments to see if anyone else had noticed!
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by rappatic 5y ago
Personally I wouldn't love if my drivers phoned home to get the serial numbers of stolen cards.
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by rappatic 5y ago
Mind explaining what you mean by this?
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by rappatic 5y ago
This is gross
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by rappatic 5y ago
This is so similar to the Stormlight Archive series by Brandon Sanderson. In the world of the Stormlight Archive, called Roshar, men from the Vorin religion are not expected to be able to read (it is considered even blasphemous). Even many
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by rappatic 6y ago
I play PC with a pretty good rig (RTX 2080S and i7-9700) and performance has been fine. I do struggle to hit 1440p60 at high settings in certain scenes (driving in populated areas etc.) but the game has been pretty bug-free for me at least.